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Dr. Mary Ann M. Carolan

Associate Professor of Modern Languages & Literature
mcarolan@fairfield.edu
o: Canisius Hall Rm 214
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  • “Dante, Draper, and deBosis: Teaching The Italian Lesson Today,” ADFL Bulletin, vol. 40, no. 3, spring 2009, 351-368.
  • “Memory on the Margins: Reflections on Italy (1938-1943) in Scola’s “Una giornata particolare” and Ozpetek’s “La finestra di fronte,” in Teaching Italian and Italian Culture, Oxford: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008, 499-519.
  • Foreword to Serao, Matilde. Unmarried Women: Stories. Trans. Paula Paige. Evanston, IL: Northwestern UP, 2007.
  • Foreword to Riccio, Anthony. The Italian American Experience in New Haven. Albany: SUNY Press, 2006, ix-xii
  • "Italian American Women as Comic Foils: Exploding the Stereotype in ’Moonstruck,’ ’My Cousin Vinny,’ and ’Married to the Mob.'" Literature Interpretation Theory 13.2 (2002).
  • "La monaca di Monza: Manzoni’s Bad Girl and the Repudiation of the Imagination." Rivista di Studi Italinani . (2002).
  • "Antonioni’s Doubting Thomas: Resurrection and Self-Discovery in Blow-Up." Romance Languages Annual XII. (2000).
  • "Icon, Intercession and Insight: Representations of the Madonna in Grazia Deledda." Quaderni d’italianistica 20.1/2/2009 (1999).
  • "Leone's Lone Lady:  A New Perspective of Women in C'era una volta il West," Romance Languages Annual, vol. XI, 1999.
  • "The Missing Mother:  Procreation vs. Creation in Morante's Early Fiction," Rivista di Studi Italiani, June 1995.
  • Gianvincenzo Gravina, Della ragion poetica, Book II.  Translation in Critical Essays on Dante.  Boston:  G.K. Hall, 1992.